SBS News reports that the new data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows there are more than one million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) every day.
Each year there are 357 million new cases who contract the STIs. The research shows that among 15-49 year-olds, there were 127 million new cases of chlamydia in 2016, 87 million of gonorrhoea, 6.3 million of syphilis and 156 million of trichomoniasis.
But worse than that the WHO has reported that drug resistance for gonorrhoea is very alarming as antibiotics treating this type of STIs across the world is less effective.
If no prevention made or treatment provided it could lead to other health complications like the risk of having STI, HIV, HPV and cervical cancer or infertility in women or may affect the unborn child or a cost the health systems.
So there are many ways to prevent this illness including raising more awareness about this illness by changing sexual behaviour, STIs health check, using condoms, vaccination and or utilising the currently available treatment and the UN Global Health Strategies for treating STIs, Viral hepatitis and HIV from 2016-2021.
